Adult school opens

Part of Vallco Mall is about to become home to a Sunnyvale’s Fremont Union High School District adult school location. The district held an open house on Tuesday, Aug. 28, to introduce the programs and show residents around the new facility. The school comes from Sand Hill Property Company’s “offer to provide the school district with temporary facilities for the district’s adult school at the vacant mall rent-free during the planned construction and modernization of the current district Educational Options facilities at 589 W. Fremont Avenue, Sunnyvale,” said a release. Blach Construction has led the transformation of the former mall food court into 11 classrooms and administration offices. The adult school serves 16,000 annually. For details, go to: fuhsdadultschool.com.

Scholarship winner

Fremont High School’s Frank Wang is one of six students (and the only Bay Area winner) in California to win 2018 Allergan Foundation Scholarship. Each student will receive a scholarship for the 2018-19 school year. The scholarship is renewable for up to three years of additional college undergraduate study. The scholarship is for Allergan employees, and is administered by National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Winners had to compete with their high school academic records, activities and contributions to their communities, test scores and personal essays, to name a few qualifiers. The Dublin, Ireland-based pharmaceutical company makes products for “the central nervous system, eye care, medical aesthetics and dermatology, gastroenterology, women’s health, urology and anti-infective therapeutic categories,” according to a press release.

Editor Kellie Ann Benz was born in Redding, California and raised in Canada's westernmost province, British Columbia. Today, she edits a variety of community newspapers in the South Bay, including Los Gatos Weekly-Times, Saratoga News, Campbell Report and Milpitas Post.

With lower home prices, more Californians could afford a home purchase in the fourth quarter of 2018 compared to the previous quarter, but the California Association of Realtors reports higher interest rates lowered affordability from the previous year for most counties.